Abraham Lincoln by Jake

Edit 0 6 …
Abraham Lincoln by Jakeexternal image 220px-Al16.jpg


  • Opposed the spread of slavery

  • Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation
  • Determined to preserve the Union by force if neccessary
  • Believed the U.S. was one nation, not a collection of individual states
  • Wrote the Gettysburg Address which stated that the Civil War was fought to
Preserve a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."